The Best of The 'X' Zone Radio/TV Show with Rob McConnell

Curt Collins is a UFO researcher and founder of the website BlueBlurryLines.com where he posts his work. Among other cases, Curt has taken a particular interest in the Cash-Landrum Texas UFO Encounter. The Cash-Landrum incident took place in 1980. Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and Vickie’s seven-year-old grandson, Colby Landrum, claimed to have encountered a UFO on the road near Dayton, Texas. It made the vehicle very hot and the group apparently suffered from physical effects due to the encounter.

Dan Terry is an author, ghost hunter, a Coast Guard veteran, and has been a Police Officer for nearly 30 years.

An Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio to Paris is missing, and officials say it may have run into lightning and strong thunderstorms over the Atlantic Ocean. Brazil has begun a search and recovery mission off its northeastern coast, and have found some floating debris they are trying to positively link with the missing plane. If all 228 people were killed, it would be the worst commercial airline disaster since 2001. Longtime international commercial pilot DJ Frost can give your viewers and listeners the inside-the-cockpit perspective. He is a South Florida based pilot with 29 years experience in the air (including many as a Captain for U.S. Airways), and has extensive media training. He currently flies international routes from the tip of South America to hot spots in the Middle East. Frost recently flew the exact route for Air France from Brazil to Paris as the currently missing plane. He has actually piloted a flight that was struck by lightning, and saw the fireball come through the cockpit and down the passenger aisle of the plane. Frost is rated on the Airbus 320, Boeing 737, 757 and 767 along with the McDonnell Douglas MD-11, and is a graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Frost is also a DISC certified human behavior consultant who specializes in human personality factors, important for flight crew coordination and cockpit resource management. This would give him a unique outlook on what the pilots, crew and passengers may have encountered on this flight. He has appeared on FOX NEWS CHANNEL, Westwood One, Radio America, America Tonight, KGO, WLW, Coast To Coast AM, WFLA, CKNX, WJFK FM, Talk Radio Network and many more.

President - James Randi Educational Foundation : D.J. Grothe is President of the James Randi Educational Foundation. He has lectured widely on topics at the intersection of education, science and belief at universities such as Stanford, Harvard, Yale, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and dozens of others. Formerly a professional magician, he has special interests in the psychology of belief and processes of deception and self-deception. He hosts the radio show and podcast For Good Reason , prior to which he hosted over 200 episodes of the popular interview program Point of Inquiry, which he and his partner Thomas Donnelly created in 2005. - www.randi.org

In The Secret of The Alchemist, Colm Holland reveals how you can discover the power to miraculously change the world around you beyond all recognition and for the better. Colm will tell you the story of his encounter with Paulo Coelho and his bestselling book The Alchemist and how discovering the secret in Paulo's novel gave him the insights to achieve true empowerment in his life. Alchemy is all about transformation and draws upon the greatest power of all to convert seemingly insurmountable obstacles into life changing experiences. Through an honest account of his own, often difficult quest to live life to the full, Colm offers you the chance to draw on his discoveries and other real-life stories to inspire the pursuit of your dreams and reach your goals. How does he know? As he wrote this book, Colm asked Love to give you, the reader, everything you need to become the alchemist in your world.

Fifty million Americans are now religiously unaffiliated, and the trend is growing fast. Last week a new study revealed that 30-40% of young people don't go to church -ever. And yet most say they're not atheists. What's happening to religion in America, and what does it mean for our spiritual future? Clark Strand thinks the answer to both questions is i-Religion. "People today download spiritual beliefs and practices just like songs onto an iPod, assembling an individualized play list, rather than just passively accepting the whole-CD approach of organized religion. Today, you can practice yoga without becoming a Hindu, and you don't have to be a Jew or Christian to believe in God. We're on the brink of a global spiritual revolution, assembling the best of everything to guide us on the path ahead." Strand is a former Zen Buddhist monk and the founder of a weekly inter-religious Bible study group. His new book is "How to Believe in God: Whether You Believe in Religion or Not." - www. WholeEarthGod.com

A leading voice for an emerging transformational culture, Daniel Pinchbeck is the bestselling author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl and Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Wired, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, Art Forum, and many other publications. He is the editorial director of Reality Sandwich and a national columnist for Conscious Choice magazine. - www.realitysandwich.com

Dannion Brinkley is an international best selling author. In 1994 Dannion's first book (with Paul Perry), Saved By The Light became an instant success. It was closely followed by his next best seller, At Peace In The Light, in 1996. He has recently written the third installment of his Light Trilogy drawing from his personal voyage and near-death encounters entitled, The Secrets Of The Light: Lessons From Heaven. This eloquent and highly inspirational book is an intuitively profound manual focused on spiritual strategies to empower life on both sides of the veil. Co-authored by Dannion's wife, Kathryn Brinkley, The Secrets Of The Light shares 7 powerful truths that will compel you to re-evaluate your current belief system in order to assist you in connecting to higher awareness. As a result, true understanding evolves into self-realization, and ultimately, spiritual enfoldment is accelerated. This holistic guidebook introduces the Four-Fold Path to Power, and shares the system that you may have not previously considered as a truly effective means to raise one's consciousness and its relationship with humankind. Inspiring and thought-provoking, The Secrets of the Light offers insights for practical application as well as a key to understanding the big picture. In his lectures and tours, Dannion imparts a paramount message designed to empower his listeners, teaching them step by step how to find purpose, power and greatness in their everyday lives. He has been praised as 'the best orator in the field' by many of his compeers on the lecture circuit. Dannion's speaking engagements lend a vibrancy and colorful approach to the world as we know it, and are highlighted with a savvy sense of humor and genuine style. The Secrets of the Light lecture series offer a candid, celebratory approach to the spiritual dynamic.

Since the famed Kenneth Arnold “flying saucer” sighting of 1947, the world has been fascinated and unnerved by these mysterious objects in the sky. Millennia of recorded human history report UFOs, and everything from the extinction of dinosaurs to the origins of humankind have been attributed to them – but what exactly are UFOs?

Featuring material from a treasure trove of UFO/Project Blue Book archives declassified in 2015, UFO FAQ is an all-inclusive guide to UFO lore – hard science and hoaxes, sightings and abductions, noted UFO proponents and skeptics, and sanctioned research and purported government cover-ups. Readers will meet cultists and explore worldwide UFO “hot spots.” They'll learn about UFOs in World War II, the Cold War, and the age of terrorism. And they'll zip along with UFOs in movies, comics, TV, and other popular media.

Also featured are an international UFO timeline and a valuable UFO checklist that includes step-by-step suggestions on how to prepare and make the most of your UFO sightings – while ensuring your credibility. Dramatically illustrated with nearly 100 photographs and drawings, UFO FAQ combines historical accuracy, provocative speculation, and compulsive readability in one handy volume.

Two members of the Lucchese crime family have been charged with murdering a fellow family member and the attempted murder of a Bonanno family member from Whitestone. The U.S. attorney’s office said Caldwell and Londonio were members of the criminal organization, La Cosa Nostra, also known as the Mafia.

La Cosa Nostra operated through six entities known as families in the New York/ New Jersey area, including the Lucchese family, Bonnano family, and Gambino family. The families operate through groups known as “crews” or “regimes” that consists of “made” members, sometimes known as “soldiers” or “good fellows.”

•What are “Soldiers?” What are Associates?”
•How do they become a member of the family?
•What does it mean to be “Made?”
•Is the above story evidence that the Mafia still operates and remains strong?

Expert Insight from a True Mafia Historian and Co-Author of “The Lufthansa Heist: Behind the Six-Million Dollar Cash Haul That Shook the World” with Henry Hill